Dan Gilbert Quotes

Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

Exchange ideas frequently.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

Consensus demands communication.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.

I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me.

If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

Understanding is a two-way street.

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

I believe in discussing very thoroughly what should be the goal. When discussing it, I allow others to give their views.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

Homesharing is about dialogue, not disruption.